Tinplate weekend photos/videos 10/28/16!!

Today i will show you some pieces made by BLZ from France, 1946-1951. First a shortened version of the famous GGI with french SNCF markings, that may seem strange for young french boys.... The most comon color is the green one.

Production time has been short but BLZ produced a great quantity of those trains as they are easily availables today.

Some passenger cars, all  the same ones that have been made with differents color variations.

And a little range of freight cars with the very important for us in France, the wine transport car....

Enjoy and have a great tinplate weekend,   Daniel

Some of the pictures I present here I also use in the e-books I make. Here is a tinplate British fixed key clockwork LNER A4 streamlined locomotive made by Mettoy:

This picture I used in a book I made on toys and models of NYC Hudson and LNER Pacifics. I did add the book (LNER Pacifics and NYC Hudsons.pdf) as an attachment here, be aware: it does not only contain tinplate.

Regards

Fred

always a lot of great looking foreign made (to us anyway!) trains.

this week out of the parts bin, 221 gets a voice.

How about Tinplate on the Hell Gate Bridge? National Capital Trackers at the York TCA Show. Saturday, October 22, 2016.

Nice stuff folks...here's a humble little Flyer 3006 I picked up at York last week:

Looking a bit forlorn, snatched it up for the holidays.

PD

This is American Flyer set #1343RT  -  Highlander  - from 1933

Or, I should say it is close approximation of that set.  The engine is a Type X #420.  The correct engine is a Type X, but it has different features, and the tender is incorrect.  When I matched the cars to this engine tender combination I thought it looked better than the correct Highlander set.

Have a great tinplate weekend!

Greg

Northwoods Flyer

The American Flyer Highlander Set from 1933....the cataloged version.. sort of ...  

Robert S. Butler posted:

The American Flyer Highlander Set from 1933....the cataloged version.. sort of ...  

 

LOL    If you squint just right, with the lights turned down low, both of our sets could be the Highlander.  We folks with the collector gene are a desperate lot.  

Greg

Northwoods Flyer

Haven’t had much time for trains lately between work and projects around the house assigned by my wife but…. I did get my EBay #33 body into the paint shop this week. The pictures below are just the painted shell with no decals or finishing yet. At this point you’ve probably guessed this will be a New Haven engine. Now I need to decide if the railings should be white or orange and whatever color I do end up painting them I’ll paint the grills the other color just to make the engine more colorful. I’ve got a nice original 33 that I’ll put this shell on but I’m also looking for another 33 so I don’t have to take apart my original. If anyone has a 33 they’d like to sell please let me know.

Greg, I purchased my set some ten years back and the set box does have the right number but, as noted, it is not an exact match for the catalog cut.

Hello World

Had a great time in York last week..Christmas in October ....great trains and great friends . 

In one of the pre - York  meets  I picked up a pair of Lionel "Jail-cars"  2 7/8" ..1904-5..the pair had recently come out of the Bronx..... never know what is still out there .   Did a general clean up and added new old looking wire ....and they sprung to life ....  still need to do some fine tuning ...but still running after 111 years not bad ....  does anyone out there  have any original 2 7/8" track ? a switch or two ? 

Cheers Carey

Getting ready to sell my small selection of British Marx, so the photo's are fresh and handy.

Steve

Robert S. Butler posted:

Greg, I purchased my set some ten years back and the set box does have the right number but, as noted, it is not an exact match for the catalog cut.

Robert,

We know how inaccurate catalog art can be in comparison to the actual products that American Flyer marketed.  Flyer was also more interested in selling their toys and marketing them at price points that a merchant was willing to sell them at than they were in providing an accurate record for collectors in the future.  I know that my set is put together, by me.  I tend to trust a set that has come with its original box, but I also know that I have bought sets that were in boxes that were labeled as one thing and had different equipment in them.  The gold standard of provenance for me is if the set comes from the original owner in its original box.  So, are our sets correct? Sure. (Maybe) And think of the fun some collector in the future will have trying to untangle the question of whether each of our sets is original.

By the way; when I store a set it is in its own box (Thank you USPS for free boxes) with a  photo of the set and the contents of the box on the label pasted on the outside, and I make note whether I assembled it or not.

In any case, they are both pretty good looking sets.  Thanks for posting.

Greg

Here is some Halloween Tinplate....

Joe

Pete in Kansas posted:

Haven’t had much time for trains lately between work and projects around the house assigned by my wife but…. I did get my EBay #33 body into the paint shop this week. The pictures below are just the painted shell with no decals or finishing yet. At this point you’ve probably guessed this will be a New Haven engine. Now I need to decide if the railings should be white or orange and whatever color I do end up painting them I’ll paint the grills the other color just to make the engine more colorful. I’ve got a nice original 33 that I’ll put this shell on but I’m also looking for another 33 so I don’t have to take apart my original. If anyone has a 33 they’d like to sell please let me know.

Pete, That would make an awesome Halloween Engine as well.

Here is some Halloween Tinplate....

Joe